Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War by William C. Wooldridge (Virginia) Early Virginia maps are oriented to the west—west, not north, appears at the top. Though that perspective looks skewed to modern eyes, it perfectly illustrates the world as Virginians then saw it: The west was unknown, unexplored, undefined. Over …
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